When the construction of the Independencia Aqueduct was completed in 2013, which illegally transfers water from the middle part of the Yaqui River Basin (Plutarco Elías Calles Dam, El Novillo) to the city of Hermosillo, it was admitted by many that around the work -In addition to the disrespect for the law and violations of the rule of law in which it was incurred to impose it- its construction had served as a scandalous feast of tampering with public resources, to such a degree that the aqueduct ended up being dubbed a “monument to corruption” . At that time, few realized that its technical unfeasibility would soon make it a monument to stupidity as well.
And indeed, according to the authorities of the State Water Commission (CEA), the Hermosillo Drinking Water Operator Agency and Conagua, due to the drought cycle, the Novillo reservoir is a few days before its levels reach by below where the extraction tubes that hang from the pumps are installed to carry out the transfer. They are therefore days away from being able to suck only air and mud.
The abuses committed for its construction were indicated and documented, as well as the "jumping of bars" to obtain the resources demanded by the work. Now nature is in charge of pointing out its technical inadmissibility, when the sustainability of its operation implies “closing the floodgates” to the runoff from the Yaqui River, in order to raise the levels of the Novillo site and make possible the height of the water that allows the operation of the pumps. Action that threatens to leave the users of the lower basin without water, that is, the Yaqui Tribe, the productive activities of southern Sonora and seven of the municipalities that are located in this region
Even without the city of Hermosillo having legal rights as a user of the basin, Conagua, CEA, and the city's water utility, presented, on June 17, an official letter addressed to the Northwest Control Manager of the National Center. of Energy Control (Cenace), in which they request that the El Novillo hydroelectric plant suspend turbination (power generation) to recover the minimum levels in that reservoir that allow the pumping required by the operation of the Aqueduct. Two days after this request, Cenace stopped turbining and generating energy. With this, the water flows to the lower part of the basin were suspended, where the Álvaro Obregón dam is located, which feeds the Yoreme territory and the Yaqui Valley. In that same request, they ask that the Angostura Dam, derive water to the Novillo to have a greater supply that makes the operation of the work viable.
These actions are added to the large repertoire of illegalities that make up black history, full of abuses and outrages, which marks the construction of the aqueduct. Once again, by means of the facts, of influence peddling, in addition to violating the decree of Lázaro Cárdenas that assigns use and destination to the waters of the Yaqui River, they also violate the presidential decree that gives the site of the Novillo the unique function to operate as an electricity generating dam and for the control of avenues and floods. All this in the light of a federal administration that presumes a historic transformation.
It is not for the best that Hermosillo becomes an obese city and that it reaches the presumptuous name of the financial capital of the Northwest. What is inadmissible is that it does so at the cost of dispossession of the Yaqui Tribe and the economic asphyxiation of southern Sonora. The concurrence of real estate speculators from different regions of the state and the country, who have gathered in the state capital, are deployed as factual powers that now seek to regulate, by means of facts, that the administration of the waters of the Yaqui River basin is governed based on the arbitrariness that the operation of the Independencia Aqueduct is the priority.
They had only pulled out the teeth, now they pulled out nails and teeth at the same time. They want to exercise an administrative dictatorship over the Yaqui River basin. As the classic saying goes: they are never satisfied.
Ciudad Obregón, Sonora as of June 30, 2021
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For more than a century, Yaqui people have risked their lives to protect their river
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